Announcement: Gorillaz, Dua Lipa, Others @ Sziget 2018

Sziget Festival has a new management – and it clearly has a brand new way of revealing the artists, DJs, and other performers taking one of its stages in August. The event’s last announcement, made on January 29, was great news for most of the attendees – and hopefully, the names below will also not be a disappointment. So, without further ado, here they are:

Dua Lipa

Gorillaz

Shawn Mendes

Stormzy

The War on Drugs

Nick Murphy FKA Chet Faker

Lianne La Havas

Desiigner

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

Gorgon City live

JP Cooper

Petit Biscuit

Borgore

Zhu

KSHMR

Yellow Days

The Living End

Sofi Tukker

Scarlxrd

Delta Heavy

Seven Lions

Bilderbuch

My Baby

Better late than never, they say. So, let’s take a look at all the names released today and how they fit into the existing list of performers already announced.

Dua Lipa (August 12) started her career as a YouTube cover artist before signing her first record deal with Warner. She released her first studio album called “Dua Lipa” last summer – the album produced two UK top-10 singles “Be the One” and “IDGAF” and the UK number-one single “New Rules”.

Gorillaz (August 9) need no introduction. Despite all members of the band being animated – 2-D (lead vocals, keyboards), Murdoc Niccals (bass guitar), Noodle (guitar, keyboards), and Russel Hobbs (drums and percussion) – they have performed live many times. And this summer, they’ll do so for Sziget’s audience.

Shawn Mendes (August 13) started his career as a social media astist, sharing covers on Vine, before signing a record deal with Island Records. Since then, he released two studio albums and pocketed several awards and nominations.

English rapper Stormzy(August 8) has released his debut album last February, and it was pretty successful – it was the first grime album to reach number one at the UK Albums Chart ever. For this year, the rapper has two BRIT Award nominations.

The War on Drugs (August 14) is an American indie rock band from Philadelphia. Their latest album, A Deeper Understanding, won the “Best Rock Album” Grammy award this year.

According to Sziget Italia Shawn Mendes will play before Kygo. Gorillaz, The War On Drugs, Nick Murphy, King Gizzard, Lianne La Havas, Stormzy, My Baby and Yellow Days are all very good for me. I already have more than 30 favorites 🙂

@Nowheretohide I’ve already been to Primavera Sound 3 times and I’m going back this year again. Comparing Sziget and Primavera Sound makes no sense. Are two totally different kind of festivals. At Sziget you live the festival, at Primavera Sound you just run from a stage to another one watching concerts. Comparing Sziget and Primavera Sound is like comparing MotoGP and MotoCross. Both involve motos, but are 2 different sports.

Anyway I’m happy to see Nick Murphy playing the 13th and hope he’ll clash with Kygo.

You-re right, but then again sziget is an art and music festival. It has always promoted itself like this.
And the lineup is excellent for now 😀 they should check the french generation of rappers.. nekfeu, lomepal… for an afternoon a38 spot!

If you want to have all day bands like King Gizzard then, probably you would stand in a crowd of 100 people. And no girls, by the way. Do you want to see girls on the festival or you just only want to listen to good music with your bearded friends? Jesus.

I think we miss:
-3 acts on Gorillaz day
– headliner and first pitch for 11
– first pitch for 12 and 13

In a38 we miss (given that first day as tradition won’t have a38):
– 4 electronic acts
– given Cigarettes, Wolf Alice, Little Dragon and Zara Larsson to headline, 2 headliners
– 4 undercards
We also lack of the majority of Telekom, the whole Colosseum, World, Europe and Lightstage

Very good and balanced announcement, we all know Sziget has a great part of pop radio mainstream music, and this acts are not bad at all. If a festival is far all listeners it has to include all. Both Dua Lipa and Shawn Mendes are good performers and will deliver a good show for pop music fans and party dudes, can’t understand all this hate on mainstream pop. We have just a Dj coheadling, great news. Gorillaz makes this lineup look wonderful.. We always say we want good performers, actual and relevant headliners and this year we have a lot of this. Just Kendrick, AM, Gorillaz, Mumford make a strong quality poster. And the midcard + undercard is shaping beautifully.

Umm, first and foremost can we not call things that we dislike ‘gay’? It’s 2018, we aren’t seven years old and we should know better.

From a pop fans perspective, the surprise to me is that Dua is a headliner, not Shawn. Like him or loathe him, he’s a global superstar whilst Dua is a worldwide breakthrough artist. I’d have preferred to see Florence or Paramore in her place, with her further down.

I think it’s an incredibly strong set of headliners overall given that you seem to be getting EIGHT of them. Arctics, Kendrick, Mumford, Gorillaz are big names for any festival really.

There’s no slang regarding the ‘n’ word. I’m using slang pretty often as long as I’m not speaking in public. This is a private forum, where everyone posts whatever he wants anonymously, so that’s why I’m using slang. For proper, formal English go to wikipedia mate.

For your interest, I support the LGBT movement, but in my opinion, that expression doesn’t have anything to do with being gay. The same way as “to be done up like a kipper” doesn’t have anything to do with a f*ckin’ fish OR “a penny for you thoughs” doesn’t have anything to do with f*ckin money.

Yeah, I flagged it up. I’m an LGBT person. I know the slang to which it refers. People used to say ‘that’s so gay’ back when I was at school… in the last millennium,

It’s not accepted now, it is offensive, the LGBT community don’t appreciate it and it’s not hard to see why. Using the word that describes a large part of our identity to denote something unwanted, undesirable, shit… I wonder why we don’t like it?

Try replacing it with ‘that’s so black’, ‘that’s so disabled’ ‘that’s so muslim’ – no race/disability/gender identity/sexuality/religion (particularly minorities who have it bad enough) deserves to be synonymous with something meaning shit.

Anyway sorry, the thread is about Sziget and I’m sorry for hijacking it, I just believe we should pull up these incidences when they happen or they will carry on and I appreciate those who tried to help me explain why it’s not okay!

Agree with @Navytaxi and @fsfsf, using “gay” as an offensive word is not only offensive to the lgbt community, it’s also one of the most stupid things you can do.

Anyway I’d love to have “gay music” at Sziget like Rob Halford with Judas Priest, Roddy Bottum with Faith No More, Neil Tennant with Pet Shop Boys, Michael Stipe with reunited R.E.M, Kele Okereke with Bloc Party or Jonsi with Sigur Ros. You can call them all “gay” @Sziget, but not because “calling them ‘crap’ would be way too generous”.

I’m sorry, I never had the intention to offend any LGBTist when I wrote that. I think I would’ve not even wrote that if Sziget would’ve not posted a cover photo with Mendes as a “potential headliner”. I was too angry when I saw that. If they would have put him in the undercard, I would’ve not even care about him.

I also want to repeat that I support LGBT rights. I promise that I’ll try to avoid using that expression from now on.

Now the main problem is that I have to find a word that would describe Mendes, Bieber, Sheeran or commercial EDM DJs as “way worse than crap”. Or I might stick with “way worse than crap” for them.

With regards the festival, I know I’m opposite to everybody who is excited for Kendrick and Gorillaz but I really want to see Mumford, Arctics & Shawn. Not sure whether to buy a Saturday day ticket, then a three day one, or go for the five day and hope for somebody I enjoy. I’d have been happy if Kendrick was there instead, but all those I want to see are very spread out this year.

King Krule has no date announced for summer. Mount Kimbie have gigs in UK and Norway right after Sziget so we can put them in the “very probable” list (plus they don’t come on the island since 2014, so it’s time for them to be back).
They’d both be great addictions for A38.

If they have deleted NIN’s partecipation from the festival it would be pitiful. Of course as headliners are really out of place but I would love to see them subbing Gorillaz, like it would be the best 4 hours in my life

They’re touring Europe in July, as they’re at Rock Werchter, Mad Cool & others, but they didn’t announce anything for August yet. I really think that Sziget is currently lacking this kind of “screaming” bands in the undercard, but the rest of the lineup is pretty cool. 😀

I saw mine and Camper’s clashfinder (links in the bottom) and I think that everything is more or less cool (heads are great, but undercard are pretty standard), but BUT the subheadliners. They suck all big time (except TWOD)- I mean big names but if they are actually:
– Lykke Li
– Bastille
– Parov Stelar
– Shawn Mendes
– TWOD
– Liam Gallagher
IMHO we are really out of the line (last year, for weak as it was, we still had Alt J and Biffy Clyro). NIN would be good at least in bringing variety, but if they dont downgrade Parov Stelar it would be a bit underwhelming, always IMHO.

Parov subbed for Rihanna last time… maybe they got someone big.
Anyway I think it’s not weak!
Lykke Li is a fan of Kendrick and she is headlining Oya and scandinavian festivals. Also having Stormzy (Wireless headliner) on 3rd position makes that day very strong.
Bastille, meh but before Mumford exclusive it would sell well I think.
Shawn Mendes… thankfully he’s a sub as we thought he was headliner.
TWOD.. no comment
Liam Gallagher! Some singalong before going to the world music stage during Dua Lipa!

I have given up on Sziget and decided to go to Primavera instead but there still might be chance for Sziget to make this shitty lineup better because if Shawn Mendes is playing in Tokyo with NIN and MY bloody valentine and some other great names then might not be that impossible for Sziget to bring NIN too….but honestly I expect more shallow names instead

The Living End in a day with Wolf Alice, Desiigner and King Gizzard won’t be headlining in a million year. Although I hope they will play parallel to Bastille spot and Desiigner to Mumford slot (to give an alternative to whom is not interested to guitar driven performances – and to give one to who wants to avoid crappy performers…

Many August festivals announcing on next week around Sziget: Boardmasters and Rize Festival (V Festival replacement) on Monday, Frequency and Zürich Openair on Tuesday, Summer Well with no exact day yet and Pukkelpop’s first announcement rumoured for the beginning of March too. I don’t expect new headliners but we can hope for good undercard acts.

My guesses are: Tyler, the Creator (Sandwitches), MK (17), The Chainsmokers (Eiffel, “Paris”), Mura Masa (Firefly), Panic! at the Disco (Panic). I would take Tyler, Mura Masa and Panic from this list if I guessed them well!

Anyway good names that have not been announced by b.my.lake and that last year were at Balaton Sound (so unlikely to be back there as usually there are no repetitions of international acts at Balaton’s techno stage and techno night in Party Arena) are Joseph Capriati, Dubfire, Max Cooper, Hot Since 82, John Digweed, Jamie Jones, Dave Clarke, Oxia, Nicole Moudaber, Mark Reeve, Eelke Kleijn and Sasha + there were Anja Schneider, Edu Imbernon and Catz N Dogz @ Elrow Stage. All these may be on the “probable” list for Colosseum.

So the sandwich hint is that Richie Hawting went to the Sandwich High School, meanwhile “17” at Jessie J is that he was part of a band for the first time at 17 years old. The other one about her – panic attack because she had one on stage? Really?! Hahahah. “Sold out” is because Nothing But Thieves had some sold out gigs.

The only well done hints by them were Mura Masa, The Bloody Beetroots and maybe Excision. The rest were crap!

Tried it this way at Sonar and it’s so much better. No risk to lose the card anymore. Seems like it was yesterday when at Sziget 2010 people from the festipay staff were everywhere asking people all over the festival area if they wanted to try the “Sziget Card”. After 7 editions of the festival it was time to move forward and improve the system.

Do we expect a big name, pop headliner still? Seems like we’re missing the Rihanna or Pink or Sia, though it doesn’t have to be a single named female.

I still say the lineup looks legit. Lots more rock. My girl likes more pop, so I tolerate it. But Kendrick is HUGE. AM, Mumford, Gorillaz are really solid. Just feels like were missing that big pop act. Dua Lipa is not that.

I think that in the past few years we had “big pop” headliners because they couldn’t book quality headliners like Arctic Monkeys or Kendrick Lamar. We have enough pop acts on Main Stage (Dua Lipa, Shawn Mendes etc.) and I don’t think that they have the budget to book another really big act.

I want Justice or Nine Inch Nails to be the last headlining act. Maybe something even better in terms of quality, but don’t know who is around.

To be honest, we need more heavier rock bands in the undercard (punk rock, metalcore). They had Parkway Drive, BMTH and BFMV in 2016 for example, but last year or this year they don’t have anything like this, except The Living End. At the Drive-In, Flogging Molly and Dropkick Murphys would be nice!

Just saw that Halestorm announced a European tour for September & October. What is interesting is that they didn’t announce anything for August yet, so it would be nice to see them doing some August festivals in Europe too!

At this point the chance we get NERD as last headliner are pretty high, but I really hope they won’t. From those names I’d take Patti Smith as a Main Stage sub and Nils Frahm and The Blaze as A38 headliners,

I don’t care too much about the last headliner… I care about the undercard more. I still hope for August festivals to book more punk rock / metalcore bands, but looks like it won’t happen. 🙁 From Lowlands, Patti Smith & Dropkick Murphys woud be cool.

Bonobo already had a gig in Budapest this year. I also hope for Flogging Molly and Protomartyr. No news about a European tour in August for bands like Paramore or Marmozets.

I think the lineup in the undercard is already full of some boring indie / pop bands I can fall asleep on, so I would like to see some heavier stuff there.

Ok so bonobo likely out. Wolfmother look to be heading this way late summer…..I suspect marmosets will be done by then they doing really long tour so expect them to be on summer Holiday. At the drive in,, sadly, also likely to be finished…. how about something crazy like sepultura?

Dunno if it’s anything to do with whatever theme they choose. Sziget has moved further away from heavy acts as the years have gone by. Additionally most of the better rock bands seem to be doing earlier festivals this year. But your spot on there’s a lot of shoe gazing indie shit in there this year and not a single band I’d consider heavy yet.

Looks like Paramore are more and more unlikely: they and Foster the People announced a June-July US tour, so until July 24 Paramore will be in the US and on August 18 they will play in Japan. However, it will be interesting to see what will they do between July 25 and August 18…

Foster the People have a slight chance, if they will announce a European tour which will begin in August.

What if they don’t announce anybody untill 17th of June and then they announce Arcade Fire? Just like Pukkelpop have done with Kendrick, wait for his gig in Belgium and then announce him for the festival. I don’t know if this may be probable, but it would be amazing.

No need for Nick Cave or QOTSA as they are playing inmusic a mere 3 hour drive away so if your local you can easily fit that in. I think realistically we are not getting another band though. D.J, electronic or pop act would be my bet for that final slot.

Just saw Arcade Fire will be in Denmark on 10th August and Deadmau5 too (Haven Festival and Smukfest). So the only possible headliners now on that day is Justice or maybe Iggy Pop since Imagine Dragons US tour lasts until 10th August. I hope Pukkelpop can add something new in the next few days.

Those that follows are my opinions about:
1) Since the announcement is 4 pm I expect the last headliner to be exclusive, so something that we haven’t seen yet around: my 2 cents on Lana del Rey. Dream would be Jay Z and Beyonce, but let’s be real;
2) For the SubHead I highly doubt NIN; I dig Franz Ferdinand, Madness (not subbing, as they already play the 10th) or Pet Shop Boys;
3) I expect so small collab from last album of Gorillaz the 10th, my bet around it are: Kali Uchis, De La Souls, Little Sims or Kehlani;
4) Probable names for A38 IMO are Rival Sons, Sleaford Mods, Grizzly Bear, HO99O9; To headline it I’d see Steven Wilson, The Rapture, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, Justice or Enter Shikari.
5) The Wombats are nailed in;
6) Undercards in MS IMO can be: Catfish and the Bottlemen, Belle and Sebastian, Jake Bugg, Kaiser Chiefs, Sum41, Patti Smith;
7) In the A38’s night I’d dig: Kink or Floating Points, Dub Pistols, Marshmello, Netsky, Alice Glass, Mura Masa, Richie Hawtin or Excision;
8) Couldn’t care less for Party Arena, but interesting names around are Kungs, Basement Jaxx and Martin Solveig.

Jay Z and Beyonce are in the United States in August .. Tomorrow I bet on Sum 41, I would like Justice, Chemical Brothers or Underworld …. I do not know if Paramore are still so relevant to do a European tour …

The last announemcement kill me…I think this year would be the last for me (9 times in a row). Too much boring band and no more diversity. Next year i will go to boomtown festival to find the sziget’s atmosphere ten yeras ago: all kind of music (Metal, punk, dru’m’bass, no EDM)
But i’m so sad to make my last summer in budapest but new management make me sick.

There’s still plenty of diversity but sure heavy rock and punk are under represented this year. For me if I have 2-3 bands I want to see each day it’s enough. Sounds silly but my problem with Mad Cool this year is the line ups too good and goes on too late. I wanna drink a beer, watch a band, see some dudes juggle, watch a comedian, watch another band, relax a bit. Szigets a world beater for this kind of schedule…

@Fifi friends of mine that have been to boomtown after sziget told me that Sziget is totally on another level. Boomtown is fun but Sziget plays in another league in almost every aspect of the festival life. One crazy sh*t about boomtown, for example: if you leave the festival area after 21:30 you cannot go inside the festival anymore till the morning after at 10. Just consider that to reach the campsite area you have to leave the festival area…

People in 2017 with good undercards: ‘Worst lineup, too many sh*tty EDM headliners”

2018, with 4/7 awesome headliners (AM being the most wanted band by fans in years, Mumfords as exclusives, Gorillaz awesome act & Kendrick – maybe the best relevant rapper nowadays): “Worst lineup, undercard is boring”

@ sziget. I think punk rock and metal music isn’t the priority since a long time.
Last year the only metal rock band was The charm & the fury and Brutus
In 2016 only bring me the horizon and molotov.
Sziget just propose music for young british pussies

@ dave. LOL. Excactly but I eat chocopops for breakfast (not really a heavy metal cereals)
I just want music to jump whatever the style (remember Skindred in 2010)…and it’s time for me to go to another festival.

I’d take Bonobo, Charlotte de Witte, Death From Above, Kiasmos, Denis Sulta, Marcel Dettmann, Tom Trago and Shellac from Day 1, Goose, Incubus, Benjamin Clementine and Call Super from Day 2 and Justice, Kolsch, Nina Kraviz, Roisin Murphy and Vitalic from Day 3

Lowlands announced new djs, with this I think that a best case scenario (among the others) for the international artists at Colosseum is the following:
– Richie Hawtin (unlikely, too big)
– Nina Kraviz
– Jeff Mills
– Ben UFO
– Bicep
– Charlotte de Witte
– Motor City Drum Ensemble

Added him and Andhim to the clashfinder.
Eelke Kleijn will matter only if he plays after Jam Blomqvist (must see!) and Andhim is open to debate, as I’m not a great fan of that A38 night and could help an opening to something big as Nina Kraviz or Jeff Mills (PLEASE)

SkaPanda
March 25, 2018 at 3:49 pm
A Spanish world music DJ, Grounchoo self-confirmed too and it’s interesting because according to Bandsintown he will play in Caravan Tent. Maybe a new venue or Roma Tent is back?

Rumours say that we’ll get the release date of the album only (and maybe it’s name too). Source is that guy blakejp from Arctic Monkeys subreddit and who has inside info fron the band (he also knew about them playing at Sziget).

actually it’s not very uncommon to do a surprise album release without any build-up nowadays. Bands like AM doesn’t relly need the press to sell it, so if they just put it up on sale they can capitalize big time on it.

Colosseum’s lineup is pretty good and solid. I’m happy with almost all of the names announced. There’s more or less everything, from stronger techno like Rebekah till smoothest house like Rodriguez jr.

I have no idea about the size of Elrow names usually, but given they won’t have a massive stage, I suppose we gonna have more medium size names, fine with that.

Fine also with the Colosseum lineup, dont get me wrong, Tiga and Martinezs the first day totally make up for the lack of an A38 night, and the last night with Raresh and Ben UFO they will probably make me shift from the after at A38 to the after at the Colosseum (Delta Heavy are pretty meh as a name)

I’m liking how Sziget is shaping up this year. Will be my
9th in a row. What other new stuff should we expect this year. It’s clear that they are shaking a few things up with caravan stage and elrow, I think there are some other areas the festival could improve on. Food hygiene being a key one. I’d like even more seating around the main stage as well. It would
Also be cool to retheme the main stage and make it look world class.

It’s not negativity, it is knowledge: Obuda is close to centre of Budapest and can’t have an outdoor stage that big in night time because not everyone is partying

That MS day is fullfilled by Gogol Bordello – Blossoms – The war on Drugs – AM
So it will simply be elsewhere, and only stage that doesn’t have a programme that day yet is party arena, so party arena will be – easy peasy

Yelo said it all!
We have the 4 main stage bands, there’s a curfew limit and even Elrow states that it will be a 7.500 capacity stage.
I will probably miss it due to the massive exodus that will happen.

Point taken, didnt realize that stage size matters cos theres outdoor stage for example World Music Stage open till 04 am. Now i know better. But still, dont really understand how that matters will AM play in last slot or not, its still AM! And that was just one example for negativity, I mean most of you really explain your points, but these “what sziget have become” etc etc… when in my point of view this years line up are in many ways stronger than in long time. Lot of acts I really like, and also acts that i dont now yet very well or are not my cup of tea, but still are huge or very significant acts in music field right now. But this is this pointless yes – no – yes commening, sorry about that

@SzigetLover
True for World Music Stage but i think it’s about the decibels.

Also, for “But still, dont really understand how that matters will AM play in last slot or not, its still AM!”
At 19h30 you still have an hour before the complete darkness. It’s way better to have AM at 21h30 to enjoy their show at the maximum, and i’m sure their production will be good!

It’s not about the size of their ego or something, it’s just practical: better shows at night.

I’m an adult Sziget fan, this year will be my 9th Sziget. I know the history and there have been negative changes but overall a load more positive changes
Over the years. For example, I miss the camp magic mirror, last 3-4 years it’s been too dancy instead of cheesy. And camp. There has always been loads of pop so that’s not new. I remember a year that mika headlined. The edm has also always been there. Faithless was one of the first things I saw. And the party arena has been there 8 out of 9 years. There has been a massive improvement in non music programmes and the event has become a full 7 days, day -1 was always Hungarian In the past. Day 0 has Also been Hungarian headliners in the recent past. Maybe the issue here is the type of bands playing but I can’t fully agree as this year there are loads of cool bands mixed in. I always have fun regardless
Of line up

Oh come on you can’t really be serious and compare faithless with today mtv grammy awards edm djs…..thats two different worlds….check line up from 8 years again….nobody comes to sziget for non music programs thats is something that is nice to have around in moments of chilling but nobody would buy tickets for that…..

There is only 1 edm headliner this year and I will be elsewhere, likly world music.. The coliseum is an improved Meduza stage, the party arena is almost always been there. I really don’t think we have a huge amount of edm everywhere this year.. the extra stages and activities do attract me to Sziget over festivals like reading and Leeds. , I love the opera every year and always make sure I see the circus and giant street theatre at least once. The magic mirror is fantastic as well. I spent a few hours last year making stuff in the art field and met loads of cool people In the process. A38 is now 6 days and runs through the night instead of 5 and ending early., same with world music stage. I’m not an edm fan, give me placebo and skunk anise for the 12th time, but I do enjoy having the time to explore the smaller stages when edm takes
Over the main.

the main problem is with the general mainstream music “consumption” over here in Hungary. Sziget has multiple genre specified festivals like Sound, B my Lake, and yet they started to flood sziget, volt,strand with awful electronic music. In a healthy enviroment sziget should have a jazz/blues stage, an alternative stage with quality artists (a38 could be done soooo much better, just look at their yearly schedule as a venue). And most importantly laptop music doesn’t belong to a mainstage of a live music festival.

randomly poster from 2011….and now compare with this year or last year sziget…like two different festivals….two different worlds…and then someone say how sziget has become better..better in what ??? non music program?? then they should better make non music festival because this have become festival for teenegers…..mtv grammy teenegers…

Also I disagree with the lineup being much better than this year in 2011. First day was Hungarian only bands. Second day was only Prince- no other bands. The rest of the days had terrible clashes if I remember correctly. Judas Priest or kasabian or Crystal fighters. Deftones or Peter Bjorn and John, Motörhead or Interpol, missed loads of good bands that year..

and btw 7 days is too long for festival…..its just way to make more money for menagment pursuit quantity of edms djs on every corner every stage for the price of quality, all good festivals last maximum of 4 days, so I dont mind to skip day with hungarian band if you have 4 other days with great music

and again Im pretty sure that Hungarian band has better impact on my ears and soul then Lana del ray, dua lipa, shawn mendez, kendrick lamar and mamford and sons, yeah mamford and sons too, they were probably the sleaziest band with some country indie rock intone that they could have bring for headliner… really dont know who listen that except teenegers who only take what is given to them through mtv………

well its on mtv whenever I turn TV on, but yeah I guess Im part of old school who still use tv I heard today youth dont really pay much attnetion to tv , and you basicaly can see song from shawn mendez and then next pone dua lpa and then next one mamford and sons so for me its the same crap…and although you can’t escape them on internet too on internet you can find some good muic beside them

yeah thats true Im getting old, 34 this year but its not me that have changed , Sziget have changed and not in good way…..but if you can say that 2011 wasnt better then I really dont have anything to discuss with you….you will have to admit that your music taste just sucks 🙂

I’m 35 and I disagree with the festival changing all that much. Placebo and prodigy were still biggish in 2010. This year we have gorillaz and artic monkeys which are arguably bigger than placebo and prodigy were then. I’m looking forward to Lana as I’ve never seen her live, same with Mumford. Smaller bands like wolf Alice , slaves, blossoms etc are all critically recommended as is Kendrick Lamar. I think you may have to investigate this modern music a bit more, maybe the festival is moving with the times and your not, there so much good and interesting music on the lineup. Fever Ray is an example of a modern, highly creative
And entertaining band,edm experience.

Sometimes I wish this community grew more and more in order to provide more friends to meet in loco.
Than I remember that for every good newcomer there come 5 moaning a-hole making noise about how it was better years ago and it reminds me so badly of the stereotype of the Italian fascist grandpa (and no, it is not racist as I am Italian, and no, it has no political underlying assumption) that I’m actually wishing this blog was private.

I think the moaners just need to accept Szigets moved with the times. I suspect the naysayers are largely metal and rock fans and it’s clear sziget doesn’t serve these genres anywhere near as well as it used to. But with those line ups of past you ain’t selling out 400000 tickets.
Personally I think this years best in ages, you’ve got the main stream acts plus plenty of interesting smaller bands……anyway on another note when will sziget news die? It’s getting tiresome scrolling down 400 messages….

Is this site just going to disappear one day? Not that I know any of y’all, but it would be a bummer to lose this board.

All this complaining is just plain dumb though. If you don’t like it, don’t go. There are hundreds of other festivals. One of them must cater to your taste. 7 days is what makes Sziget special. The breadth of music is what makes Sziget special. Do I care one shit about Dua Lipa or Shawn Menses? Absolutely not. That’s why they have more than one stage (not to mention the city itself). AM is a legit headliner, even though they are far from my #1. Do festivals change with the times? Sure. Do festivals exist to make money? Duh. Sziget is special because it doesnt feel like a complete cash grab,.

But hell man…I’m 44 years old and have done festivals across Europe and the US…and Sziget never has the best lineup, but its always the best festival. I, for one, can’t wait!

I’m on both the forums and it works good, I dont feel like leaving this place because I started getting into festivals from here and i’m a romantic, but of course if SzigetNews doesnt bring news anymore I’ll have to follow the trend and migrate anywhere else

Ah come on, saying Sziget has gone MTV-type pop is just plain wrong. Consumption of music has just changed. Those bands that played Sziget 10 years ago were getting the most mainstream playtime, too. Back in the time those genres were leading the industry.
Current statistics clearly show that ticket sales are rapidly rising for r&b/hip-hop and dance events, whilst rock events are selling less and less. A BUSINESS like Sziget, that has to appeal to a wide range of audience to survive, has to move with the market.
Plus lets not forget it started as a student festival and it still mainly kind of appeals to the same age-group. Young party-hunting teenagers are their main income. 10 years ago young party-hunting teenager listened to Motörhead, but new generation does not. Truth is, you guys are just getting old and growing out of the festival. 🙂

There are more voices of reason on here than moaners, that’s great news. I can’t wait for my 9th Sziget, I’ve already discovered lots of new stuff I would have never found without it. Fever Ray, slaves and cigarettes after sex to name just a few. We should defiantly have a szigetnew s meetup at some point during the fest. I’m staying off Island this year for a little added luxury., who’s doing the whole camping thing.

I’m doing the whole camping thing, I feel like I need to be on the island to get the experience i want. But went for a luxury option, took Flexotel in the VIP camping. I’m getting too old for that 7-days in a tent shit. I have a soft bed with linen waiting for me, with lightning, power, tables, storage for clothes – everything. It’s a hotel on the island. + that VIP pool with that hot weather – perfect! It’s impossible to keep your hygiene for 7 days, but with Flexotel I might actually manage that and avoid the good old sziget flu.

And I am genuinely worried about the guy who runs Szigetnews – I hope nothing has happened to him..

think what you want nobody is paying me to enlighten you :)… other festivals also changed but in good way, nobody is asking Sziget to stand in time but they have panderi to the lowest common denominator that its really painful to watch anymore, yeah i gave up on Sziget and decided to go to Primavera, although Sziget is way closer to me…you also have on Primavera lots of electronic music and even so called artist like Migos, but also bedise them tons of great and quality music that you just really cant find anymore on Sziget….you can keep telling yourself how this year line up is great but really it isnt, it sucks…. bye 🙂

btw I love electronic music Im not metalhead, ., fever ray is one of my favorite bands..fever ray, AM, gorillaz, petrubator, onuka and few more good names for 7 days with bunch of crap is just bad festival

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